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The Kamand is an Iranian CIWS based on AK-630 to counter anti-ship missiles and low flying aircraft. The Kamand gun system is able to hit airborne targets at a range of two kilometres firing projectiles at a rate of 4,000 to 7,000 rounds per minute. The said system is installed on some Iranian naval ships like Alborz and Sahand frigates. [19]
The thesis of Arming America is that gun culture in the United States did not have roots in the colonial and early national period but arose during the 1850s and 1860s. The book argues that guns were uncommon during peacetime in the United States during the colonial, early national, and antebellum periods, that guns were seldom used then and that the average American's proficiency in use of ...
"The Lake Gun" is a satirical short story by James Fenimore Cooper first published in 1850. [1] The short story was commissioned by George E. Wood for $100, and published in a miscellany titled The Parthenon. [1] It was reprinted in Specimens of American Literature in New York in 1866.
American Civil War alternate histories; A Rebel in Time, another Civil War alternate history involving time travel and a racist sending advanced weapons to the Confederacy. "Still Valley", a The Twilight Zone episode focusing on the Civil War. Southern Victory, a series of books by Turtledove focused on a Confederate victory and its aftermath.
The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot is a 2007 non-fiction book by Naomi Wolf, published by Chelsea Green Publishing of White River Junction, Vermont. Wolf argues that events of the early 2000s paralleled steps taken in the early years of the twentieth century's worst dictatorships and called Americans to take action to ...
A panel from the graphic novel, with the young Geoffrey Canada at left. In the mid-2000s, Beacon Press began considering publishing an alternate graphic novel version.. Illustrator Jamar Nicholas and editor Allison Trzop created Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence (A True Story in Black and White), which was released in stores on September
A More Perfect Constitution is a book published by American political scientist at the University of Virginia, Larry J. Sabato, [1] in which he proposes a constitutional convention to substantially overhaul the United States Constitution.
Negroes with Guns is a 1962 book by civil rights activist Robert F. Williams. [1] [2] Timothy B. Tyson said, Negroes with Guns was "the single most important intellectual influence on Huey P. Newton, the founder of the Black Panther Party". [3] The book is used in college courses [4] [5] and is discussed in debates. [6] [7]